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Re: [colorvision_group] PFP user guide in PDF?
2007-06-17 by CDTobie@aol.com
In a message dated 6/17/07 5:14:24 AM, oksen@... writes:
A note on the help files. They are really good an quite comprehensive already, but if you have the time etc. you should consider developing it into an even more comprehensive document. As it is clear from the various lists, there are many issues in colour management and new possibilities crop up all the time. Since you have so much written already, you could actually turn it into a broader field guide where various techniques etc. are thoroughly explained, also theoretically, and then have direct references to how these things are done with your products. I’m a scientist by profession,
Thats clear from your perspective. View it from the other side: 90 percent of our users will never run the application in anything but default wizard mode. They will build profiles at the media setting with the same or simiilar name, without testing other settings. They have read little or none of the current documentation, and if they did, they would consider it overwhelming/excessive for their needs. So we're talking about a book for the other ten percent: the advanced users. I'm sympathetic to that idea; once sales numbers are high enough that ten percent is a number justifying an advanced book. Translation of such a text and its illustrations into the ten languages we now support could be a hundred thousand dollar project, even without publishing a paper version, however. So it could be a while before I can work up a project plan that makes financial sense for such a project.
C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com
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